But what strikes me, Ian, in what you've said is the more complicated business of "ideological depth" — whether one's assessment of Al Qaeda's ideology as "profound" then requires some similarly "deep" response that, given AQ's thinking, would almost have to be illiberal.
Ultimately, however, Americans demonstrate a steadfast aversion to ideological zealots, whether they are Cruz or Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).
It becomes just a matter of judgment and ideological position whether one sees the glass as half empty or half full at this point".
Describing himself as an "old Scottish warrior," Dr. Campbell delighted in fierce ideological battles, whether with Stanford administrators whom he accused of wanting to take over Hoover or of spokesmen for liberal causes, not a few of whom he considered nonsensical.
"They are often motivated by their own ideological dispositions, whether they want to admit it or not". The move to private land is "not a resolution," Becker said.
As Braniff sees it, public officials from the White House on down need to apply CVE strategies across religious and ideological lines, whether the perpetrators are Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, who were behind the San Bernardino shootings, or Dylann Roof, who shot nine black church attendees in Charleston, South Carolina.
He was often on the front lines, fighting eloquently for the under-represented, never losing sight of his progressive ideological bearings, whether working outside the system with student, civil rights, and anti-war movements in the Sixties or, years later, on the inside as a member of the California Legislature.
To different degrees all three are oppressive regimes, each in its own way with its particular ideological justification, whether the Communist Party's alleged superior wisdom and management skills, Russia's legitimate sphere of interests as a Great Power or Islam's right to a national theocracy.
As the Mayor of Newark, New Jersey, I don't enjoy the luxury of ideological debate -- whether guns in our society are "good" or "bad," or arguing the constitutional parameters of "a well regulated Militia". My concern, when I wake up every morning and when I put my head down on my pillow at night, is that none of my residents become part of that daily 34 person national tragedy.
The answers to those questions, in Iowa and beyond, will help us understand whether the Republican Party is really undergoing an ideological transformation, or whether, once again, there is nothing new under the sun.
